Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.
ELISABETH ELLIOTThe devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
More Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
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I have one desire now – to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
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If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look ‘little’ or ‘big’.
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I’m convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.
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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God’s story never ends with ‘ashes.
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Heaven is not here, it’s There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for
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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
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God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.
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Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?
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Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
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A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.
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